Lighting For Theater (2nd Edition in Production)

This hands-on primer will produce results on your stage by giving your students the skills required to light a stage evenly, establish basic moods, create some basic special effects, and troubleshoot many common problems.

Walks students through a step-by-step process for lighting a show, from designing and executing a basic light plot, hanging, circuiting, patching, subbing and cueing.

Differentiates the creative uses of various lighting instruments and control equipment.

The third program of the Practical Technical Theatre (PTT) Series, Lighting for Theater, provides a "nuts and bolts" approach to learning basic lighting concepts for live productions. Bob and Marti Fowler, co-creators of the PTT series and career theater educators with over 60 years of combined experience, lead this interactive lesson plan, taking your class step-by-step through the process of lighting a show.

Putting Basic Lighting Theory to Work

Lighting for Theater is not a theoretical treatise on different schools of lighting theory, color temperature and the like. Instead, enough theory is covered so a teacher who has limited lighting experience, along with his or her class, can design and execute a basic light plot.

Instruments and Equipment

One of the most important skills in theater lighting is the ability to determine which instruments to use in different positions in the theater to achieve desired moods and effects. Lighting for Theater teaches students how to identify and creatively use various lighting instruments and equipment, including dimmers and controllers. Students also learn how to apply basic lighting concepts such as plugging, patching, subbing and cueing. As with all programs in the Practical Technical Theatre series, safety issues are highlighted and addressed.

Light Your Stage!

By the time the teacher and students finish this program, they will have the skills required to light a stage evenly, establish basic moods, create some basic special effects, and troubleshoot many common problems. This is a hands-on primer that will produce results on your stage!

Day 1 Reasons for Using Stage Lighting

3 Controllable Qualities of Light Â– Intensity

Day 2 3 Controllable Qualities of Light - Color

3 Controllable Qualities of Light- Distribution

Day 3 Types of Lighting Instruments

Lighting Positions

Review for Written Assessment

Day 4 Review for Written Assessment

Written Assessment

Day 5 Basic Lighting Design

Doing a Hanging Plot

Day 6 Patching Schedule

Cueing the Show

Hanging, Focusing, and Gelling your Show

Troubleshooting Common Problems

Day 7 Review for Written Assessment

Written Assessment

Day 8-9 Design a light plot for a one-act play (OPTIONAL)

CHAPTER INDEX, AND ALIGNMENTS TO THE NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ARTS EDUCATION (PRE - 2015)

National Content Standard 5 - 8:

3. Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

Achievement Standard:

a. Explain the functions and interrelated nature of scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes and make-up in creating an environment appropriate for the drama

f. Collaborate with directors to develop unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the drama for informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions